Reconciliation restores communion among those whose bond of mutual belonging has been impaired or even severed.

The foundation of Reconciliation is a simple principle: what is common among human beings ought to prevail over every discord. This should especially be the concern of Jesus’ disciples, whose common bond through Baptism demands that they be responsible for building the unity of the Church and the missionary responsibility of building the unity of the entire human race.

The Paulist Fathers stand at the forefront of reconciliation through a wide pastoral process to address the needs of listening, healing, dialogue and reconciliation in the Church today.

Jesus Christ, present in Scripture and sacrament, is central to all that we do; he must always be the measure and not what is measured.Around this central conviction, the church’s leadership, both clerical and lay, must reaffirm and promote the full range and demands of authentic unity, acceptable diversity, and respectful dialogue, not just as a way to dampen conflict but as a way to make our conflicts constructive and a means to understand for ourselves and articulate for our world the meaning of discipleship of Jesus Christ.